EUROPEAN ANTIFASCISTS CLOSE MEETING IN PULA

PULA, Sept 30 (Hina) - A day-long international meeting of members of the World War Two antifascist movement closed in the northern Croatian coastal town of Pula on Monday evening with an appeal to governments to respect the rights of antifascist fighters and with a condemnation of the revival of Nazi-fascism. The previously recognized rights of antifascist war veterans, invalids and war victims have been unjustly abolished or reduced in some countries, including Croatia, the meeting said in a final document. Antifascist fighters demand equal rights for all veterans, invalids and war victims, regardless of the wars in which they participated. "The meeting of the antifascist fighters of European countries condemns the rewriting of history by concealing the truth about the antifascist and anti-Nazi struggle, particularly in school textbooks. The meeting condemns the glorification of Nazi-fascism, its servants and symbols, which has taken on disturbing proportions in some countries," the document said. The document denounced ethnic cleansing as "a Nazi-style method of destroying nations." Antifascist fighters supported an agreement on the normalization of relations between Croatia and Yugoslavia, and the Dayton peace agreement for Bosnia-Herzegovina. (hina) vm jn 302127 MET sep 96